jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (06/30/89)
> If it bothers you that much, just give your windows a backing-store > hint of Always, or WhenMapped, or whatever your notion of a "real > windowing system" provides, and then document that it won't work > properly with servers that don't support "real windowing system" > backing-store semantics. After all, if X required such things, your > program wouldn't run at all with such machines (they wouldn't havve > *any* server), so you haven't lost any potential usefulness.... Don't forget to add that the application window could go blank at any time if you ever obscure and then expose it.... A growing number of servers are finally getting smart enough to throw away backing store when they start to run out of memory.